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If cars are so smart, then how come they crash?

Cars are surely only as smart as the driver? Or are they?
What's your view on how smart cars actually are?
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gno | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Of course cars aren't smart. They have no ability for reason, judgment, or conscious thought. They can only be programmed to act as humans wish them to.

...and sometimes that includes driving 90mph in the fast lane, "going around" slow traffic on the shoulder, and not hitting the brake on an icy road until that stop sign is only 10 ft. away. People cause accidents.

And if people aren't smart enough to not get in accidents, how can we expect our inventions to do better than us?

The day cars outsmart us is the day I become one of those survivalists hiding in a backwoods cabin with a mountain of beef jerky and a bunker full of toilet paper.

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rudyj2112 | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Cars today are smart but sometime the drivers aren't so smart. And not all drivers have smart cars.

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jkepler | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Cars are getting to be about as smart as they can be without talking to each other, and that's a big problem. How smart would you be right now if you could never receive information from another human being - ever? This is the next big hurdle, but things are going to really improve once we begin to tackle it.

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r2moo2 | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Cars are not smart; they are just mechanical tools.

They crash not because they are smart or stupid, but their drivers are smart or stupid or sleeping.

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psynopsis | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Unfortunately, they can't make smart people. There will always be a glitch with anything we used whether it's computers or cars. That glitch is also known as a human. If someone says something like "This computer is error free" don't believe it, as long as its made by humans it's full of errors, you just have to look for them.

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mraussie | 2 years, 7 months ago
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Yes, it's not the car, it's the nut behind the wheel! Look, cars are no doubt "smarter" now than they were in previous generations, and they will continue to get "smarter" into the future. The tech's will put in more and more computers and chips, etc, so the eventually a car will be able to drive itself. That might be a good thing, as you can't rely on humans to always do what's right behind the wheel. Just look at how many of today's youngsters muck around with mobiles, music, DVD players, children, newspapers, make-up, and even breakfast cereal when they are supposed to be concentrating on the road! With all the stupid things the human nut-cases are doing while driving, I'm surprised that there aren't more crashes.
At the moment cars can't drive themselves, but they will one day. That will probably mean a big drop in crash numbers, and lives lost, but then the humans will find some other way to kill themselves needlessly.

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lilyloretta | 2 years, 7 months ago
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True - cars are only as smart as the driver. Unless it's one of those cars that has the automatic braking system with the sensors when you get too close to something.

I wouldn't say smart cars are at all smart. If two people want to travel around with minimal baggage then they can go ahead and get a bus...

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psionandy | 2 years, 7 months ago
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The weakest component in most cars is the "Nut behind the wheel"......

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